Hose-coupling.



D. H. TAYLOR.

HOSE GOUPLING.

- APPLICATION FILED 00T. 21; 1911. 1,051, 1%. 1 Patented Jau 21, 1913.

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HOSE-COUPLING.

Speccaton of Letters Patent.

Patented aan. ai, 191s.

Application led October 21, 1911. Serial No. 655,991.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL H. TAYLOR,

a citizen of the United States, residing at in the countyot Las Animas and 4and of useful Improvements in Hose-Couplings, which the following is a specification.

An object of the invention is to provide a hose coupling for connecting the air lines j, on cars and the like.

For the purpose mentioned, use is made I 'of a clamping, body for connection to the draw bar of a car, a shank adjustably mounted on the clamping'body and having a. spoon secured thereto, the said spoon being adapted to engage a similar spoon on an adjacent car, the said similar spoon being received in a casing secured to the shank adjacent the first mentioned spoon andthe said spo-ons being provided with passages having connection with theair lines of the adjacent cars so, that the air in the air line 'of one car can easily flow into theair line ot the adjacent car, the said shank being mounted relatively to the clamp body to .absorb the usual shock occasioned when two cars are coupled together.

' Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings constituting a part of this specicatiomin which similar characters ot' reference denote corresponding parts in all the views, and in which Figure 1 isa fragmentary side elevatio-n 'showing the ends of adjacent cars coupled together, the air lines thereof being connected by means of my device. Fig. 2 is an enlarged plan view showing my coupling connected to a similar coupling secured to an adjacent car. Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional view on the line 3-3 in Fig. 1, looking in the direction of' the arrow. Fig. 4t is a vertical longitudinal sectional view taken on the line 1-4 in Fig. 2, looking in the direction of the arrow. Fig. 5 is a vertical sectional view taken on the line 5 5 in Fig. 1, looking in the direction of the arrow:

Referring more particularly to the views, l provide a clamp body provided with a longitudinally extending opening 11 1n which is slidably mounted a shank 12. The upper end ot the clamp body 10 is provided with ilanges 13 having a recessed portion 14 therebetween to receive a draw bar 15, 'the said draw bar being retained in connection with the clamp body 10 by screw bolts16 ,passed through a plate 17, positioned on the so arranged relatively to upper sideV of the draw bar, the said screw boltsV passing through apertures in the flanges 13 and having nuts 18 connected therewith as shown in Fig. 1.

A collar 19 is slidably'mounted on the shank 12 and is provided with an opening' 20 through which is extended a pin 21, the

said shank 12 being provided with spaced apertures 22 and through which the pin 21 is adapted to passto adjustably ret-ain the collar 19 in rigid position on the shank 12. A helical spring 23 is mounted to encircle the shank 12 andhas one end thereof abutting againsta circular flange 2a. formed on the clamp body 10. with the other end of the said spring abutting against a. circular flange 25 formed on the collar 19, one end of the spring being secured to the clamp body 10 and the other end being secured to the collar 19. By removing the pin 21,rom the collar 19 and the shank 12 the collar can be slidably operated on the shank 12 and against the tension of the spring 23 after which the pin 21 is repositioned to extend through the collar 19 and .shank 12, thus permitting an adjustment of the collar 19 relatively to the shank 12. rThe outer end of the shank 12 terminates in a spoon 26 provided with an air passage 27 and a hose 28 is adapted for connectionf'with the spoon 26 to connect the air passage 27 with the air line 29 4of av car 30. Formed on the inner end of the spoon 26 and .odset toextend outwardly in parallel relationto the spoon and adjacent thereto is a casing 31 provided with a recessed portion 32 and having a series of apertures 33 therein, the said casing being adapted to receive a. spoonvsimilar to the spoon 26, secured to an adjacent car, so that the air passage in the spoon 26 will connect with theair passage in the spoon in the adjacent car, thus permitting the air in the air line of the car to pass into the air line of the adjacent car.

The draw` bar 15 is pro*I ided' with the usual coupling 311adapted .for coupling one car to another and vmy coupling device is the coupling 34 that when two cars are coupled together, the air hose coupling'o-f the adjacent car will engage withl the air hose coupling on the car 30 so that the air in lthe air line 29 will be permitted to adjacent car, the spoonon the adjacent car being received in the casing 31 and the said spoon on the adjacent car being constructed pass into the air line of theA similar to the spoon 26. Thus it will be readily seen that when the .two cars are connected by means of the usual coupling members, the spoon of one car will be received lin the casing on the adjacent car and as the shank 12 is slidably mounted relatively to the clamp body l0 the concussion produced when the two cars are coupled together, will be substantially absorbed by the spring 23 mounted between the clamp body 1.0 and the collar 19 adjustably retained in rigid position on the shank 12. By referring to Fig. 3, it will be seen that the air passage 27 in the spoon 26, at the inner end of the spoon, extends at right angles to the longitudinal axis of the spoon and terminates at the rear end of the spoon to receive the' air hose 28 andthe air passage at the outer end of the spoonQGalso extends transverselyA to the spoon to aline with the air passage in the spoon of the adjacent car. The apertures in the casing 31 permit an easy escape for the air in the air line 29 when it is desired to exhaust 'the air from the air line and when the car on which the casing is mounted is not connected to an adjacent car.

Having` thus fully described the invention, what I claim as new, is

In a device of the class described, a clamp body -for connection with the draw bar of a car, a shank slidably mounted on the clamp body and provided wit-h a series of spaced apertures, a collar slidably lmounted on the said shankand provided with an aperture adapted to aline Wit-h the apertures in the said shank, a pin for removable engagev ment'with the said collar andadaptedto extend in an aperture in the collar and one of the apertures in the said shank to rigidly retain the collar on' the shank, a spring mo-unted to encircle the said shank and connected to the said clamp body and the said collar., a spoon projecting from the outer end of the said shank and provided with an.

air passage adapted for connection with the air line of the car and an apertured casing provided with a recess and adapted to receive the spoon on an adjacent car so that the air passage in the spoon on the adjacent car will register with the air passage 1-n the spoon on the rstmentionedcar.

In testimony whereof I aix my signatureA 

